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Show on nfracfz To Move A's T o ey Defies A. L. Owners To Prevent The Move LOUISVILLE, Ky. (UPI) Charles O. Finley waved a legal contract with the state of Kentucky in the face of American League clubowners today and in effect defied them to keep him from moving his Kansas City Athletics to Louisville for the next two seasons. Finley Gov. Edward T. Breathitt and other state officials signed the contract in the : governor's office at Frankfort Monday, binding the '.colorful club owner to move his team from Kansas City into Louisd ville's Stadium for the Fairgrounds state-owne- 1? V club-owne- rs Jfk&tZ'V' STOCKHOLM iiiiiiip ft . I iiui,.),jii .JH.ltmw j U V ring-rust- LouisSIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED ville's mayor William Cowger (left) applauds as Kentucky governor Edward "Ned" Breathitt (center) shakes hands with Kansas City Athletics owner Bruins Gain Recruiting Violations Show Decline According to NCAA Notre Dame's Famed Four Horsemen Top Spot In Casaba Poll Couldn't Play in NFL of This Era years ahead of the; by Chuck Bednarik of the PhilUPI Sports Writer adelphia Eagles. MIAMI (UPI) "But," adds Gifford, "in 10 "I didn't know what hapThe Four Horsemen of Notre years we'll have a lot of Jim- pened," said Gifford. "It was my Browns, fellows who are not like being run over by a truck By OSCAR FRALEY "He is game. Dame gridiron glory couldn't even play in the National Foot-cit- y ball League of this era, Frank Gifford of the New York Giants asserted today. "They'd be much, much too small to stand the gaff," said the handsome flanker back who was knocked out of action himself for one year. "The size and of those defensive ferocity teams is unbelievable." "Consider Jimmy Brown," he points out with vast admiration fullback for the the Cleveland Browns, first ball carrier to gain more than a mile of yardage in one season. 232-pou- of nd only big and seemingly inde- structible but also move with tremendous speed and maneuverability. You might say that because of multiple vitamins we'll have multiple Jimmy Browns." It's Gifford's opinion that at the end of another span lineman will be a "just average" and that "every one of them will be able to move like sprinters." Imh t, The the University of pounder from Southern California was out of action in 1961. He suffered a bad concussion when he was hit 10-ye- 300-pou- ar nd six-foo- one-inc- Paul Harney Cops Victory In Los Angeles Open Meet By HAL WOOD UPI Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (UPI) Paul Harney, the from Sacramento, golfer Calif., by way of Worcester, Mass., was so happy today that he went right out and bought his wife a new $2,000 mink jacket. slugger Harney, the who quit the tour last year, won the $50,000 Los Angeles Open golf tournament Monday and collected $7,500 for the feat. soft-spok- 150-pou- en nd w'M..'::w"V;gag ". I To get the prize, Harney, 34, put up the fight of his life. He fought back the challenges of such golfing greats as Arnold Palmer, Bob Nichols, Bob Goal-b- y Dow Finsterwald and Al Geiberger to get the victory. And when it was all over, he coasted into the 18th hole holdlead. He came ing a through with a bogey that gave him a par 71 and a final score of 280 against a 281 for Nichols, and a 282 for the other top challengers. "I rather guessed that I'd two-stro- ke never win another tournament," said Harney whose last victory came in 1959. "This is the biggest victory of my life." Harney, 34, quit the tour after nine years on the road at the start of last year and took a job as a club pro at Sunset PGA tournaments a year. But he played 12 last year and in two of those the National Open and the Thunderbird he missed by one stroke of gaining lasting fame. "But I have no thought of returning to the golfing trail," he says, "I have a wife and four children and we are settled in our home at Sunset Oaks. We plan to stay there. I have a contract." Harney had rounds of long-ter- m 71-7- 2- for his 280. Monday while he was fighting to maintain a par average he had three birdies and three bogies,. Nichols picked up $4,000 for his second place finish with rounds of for his 281. If he had won, he would have incollected another $11,500 from a cluding, $3,000 golf ball 66-7- 1 manufacturer and IN TROUBLE Jimmy dark, who started play in the final round of the L.A. Open tourney with a 210, blasts out of the rough from under a tree near the fifth- fairway. Paul' Harney won first place in the $50,000 tourney. Herald-UP- I $5,000 from the golf club that employs him. Goalby, Palmer, Finsterwald and Geiberger each collected $2,77!, for their tie for third place. Dave Marr and Tommy Jacobs had 283 for $1,950. NEW YORK (UPI) The National Collegiate Athletic Association poimed with pride 10 a steady decline in recruiting infractions today and; supported its claim by administering little more than a slap on the wrist to five erring schools. NEW YORK (UPI) The UCLA Bruins are the third and 10 of Sacramento. His contract allows him to play only eight Telephoto). Charles O. Finley, following an agreement to move Finley's baseball team to Louisville. (Herald-UP- I Telephoto) . Frank Gifford Says Oaks, a housing development with golf course, 20 miles east j York's Championship Sports, champion Floyd Inc , who teamed with Swedish Patterson, with an opening promoter Edwin Ahlquist j in comeback victory under his Monday night's very 'successful belt, smilingly consiidered to- show, said Floyd's next fight day whether Henry Cooper of probably would be at Stockholm England or Karl Mildenberger or Londor. of Germany should be his next Championship Sports staged opponent on the title; trail. five of Patterson's title bouts. When Floyd was asked if he Monday night Floyd stopped burly Sante planned to fight soon in the Amonti, champion of Italy, at United States, he said, "No, but 2:25 of the eighth roijmd before I'll return to my camp at High a turnaway crowd of 11,800 in land Mills, N.Y., in about three and begin training Stockholm's Johanneshov Indoor weeks Stadium. Amonti ws floored there." four times. Meanwhile, Floyd said he In his first fight since cham- would give boxing exhibitions in Sweden and Norway for pion Sonny Liston knocked him the benefit ofperhaps Swedish charities. out in the opening round last Patterson, weighing 192 y July 22, Floyd appeared poundsko Italian Amonti's 191, and somewhat confused at black-haire- d Santimes although he won with flooredocky, te once in the second round, comparative ease. once in the fourth and twice in He said he would fieed "four the eighth. Then referee Anor five more fights"ito sharpen drew Smythe of Belfast, North himself properly for another Ireland, stopped the bout as shot at the title. Amonti leaned groggily against Tom and Al Bolan of New the ropes. (UPIji-For- mer, heavyweight 0 at - ft 7. v.: K-- I t SJ Patterson Stops Italian in 8th club-owne- rs iii4m.'yi(lit.WA.M yiin,MHMjliminw County, 1964 Utah I! f Hoop Results ' i3 .:. - f i,iiMiii, Utah 10r N I 0 grey-haire- Hi.um TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, Ring-Rust- y and 1965 at a special meeting seasons and to play as the Ken- called by Cronin for Jan. 16 at tucky Athletics. New York to consider the matFinley said, "I hope in two ter. Before that Session, the years time the fans of Kentucky five league directors will huddle will demonstrate to us that we to discuss Finley's troubles with should stay here." the Kansas City officials. The agreement has the same "It is my personal opinion provisions as the contract under which Finley formerly operated that the American League will in Kansas City, but which he not make a checkerboard of this said he was unable to renew franchise by moving it from with a new city administration. place to place, from year to It gives the Commonwealth of ear," Cronin said. "I would be much against using the Kentucky 5 per cent of grossj very Kansas City franchise as a gate receipts and 7.5 per cent of gross concessions revenue, in wedge or a hammer against return for expenditure of up to the Kansas City people." Finley, however, posed the $500,000 to expand the Stadium a tough question by signseating capacity from 20,100 to league the contract. ing 30,632. Can't Discuss Lease Money From Fund d Athletics State Finance Commissioner The said L. Felix Joyner the money owner argued, "we are not even for the renovations would come at liberty now to discuss a from the state's capital con- lease with the Kansas City govstruction- fund. ernment. We have a contract with Kentucky." In effect, Finley was saying to the rest of the league, either play me in Louisville or don't United International Press By play me and if you don't play South me, you'll have to pay me. Kansas City officials Monday Citadel 63 Wm. & Mary 60 sent the ball club a afternoon N.Car. A&T 92 Virginia St. 62 Morgan St. 99 N.Car. Coll. 92 telegram extending for 14 days, South Carolina 73 Maryland 69 until midnight, Jan. 24, the date on which the club must sign a E. Ky. 70 W. Ky: 65 ' new contract or vacate the ball 58 66 Wake Forest Furman CCNY 65 Howard (D.C.) 62 park. The old contract with the of Kansas City has expired It. Nats 84 N.Car. St. 81 as Finley said, was de- or Geo. Washington 96 Va. Tech 89 clared null and void by the city W.Va. Tech 105 W.Va. St. 76 Grambling 81 Jackson St. 78 council while he was trying to NE La. St. 83 SE La. '76 negotiate. Union (Tenn.) 84 Chris. Bros. 81 Louisville, having lost its American Association franchise Mississippi 59 Auburn 58 last year after 61 years, is in Miss. St. 69 Alabama $6 baseball terms, an "open city" Arkansas St. 70 Delta St; 50 and under baseball law can be -- Vanderbilt 85 Kentucky S3 Ala. St. Coll. 101 Miss. Voc. 91 taken over by a major league club any time up to Feb. 16. In Huntingdon 83 Belhaven 53 order to move to a city which Louisiana St. 87 Florida 65 a baseball franchise, such has Georgia 87 Tulane 83 as Atlanta, Ga., for example, Lane 121 Knoxville 89 the declaration of intent would Midwest Xavier (Ohio) 121 Detroit 113 have had to be filed prior to Mankato St. 79 Moorhead St. 62 last Oct. 31. Michigan St. 106 Wisconsin 90 PORTLAND, Ore. (UPI) An Northwestern 79 Indiana 65 was sent Monday to invitation Missouri 84 Oklahoma 74 Charles Finley asking him to Colorado 60 Kansas St. 59 move his American League Nebraska 55 Iowa St. 52 Kansas City Athletics here. Empiria St. 80 Pittsburg St. 77 Multnomah County CommisTenn. St. 93 Sou. Illinois 86 Mel Gordon issued the sioner Lakeland 96 Trinity 85 invitation to the Kansas City Minn. (Duluth) 74 Hamline 71 owner in a telegram. Southwest "Portland is one of the great New Mexico Highlands 70 sports centers in the west with Fort Lewis A&M 64 more than 2.5 million people Tex. Western 77 Arizona; St. 72 to draw from," Gordon said. Okla St. 64 Kansas 48 "We are now in the process Arizona 59 Seattle 53 of voting on a new 60,000-seWest covered stadium," he said. Utah St. 84 Utah 72 "I know that the people of 77 Air Force N.Dak. St. 61 Portland and the great NorthEastern Ore. 79 Whitman 77 west stand ready, willing and 79 Westminster 83 W. Montana able to provide your club with Cal Western 67 Whitworth 57 a new home." 1964 6 Daily Herald f However legal, the Kentucky contract was only, another shot tired by Finley in his battle to wrest what he considered more satisfactory terms out of Kansas City officials, or move the club, and the Athletics were still a long step from opening their home season against Cleveland here next April 22. American League President Joe Cronin said flatly he doubted that American League would approve the move. Finley must win approval from at least seven other 0UIISVI1 Byers. explaining why the NCAA eased a sanction for the first time ever, said: "We wanted to do everything we can to help the United States get together a powerful Olympic latest basketball collegiate e in team to occupy the United Press International and I was out cold. A lot of rankings but their coach, John people said I ought to quit be- Wooden, isn't happy. Emphasizing that !not one of fore I started walking around UCLA was ranked No. 1 by the offenders was guilty of seon my heels." 25 of the 35 coaches on the UPI rious violation, Executive DirecGifford spent the 1961 season to give tor Walter board Monday rating Byers of the NCAA scouting for the Giants and con- the undefeated Bruins their first the geneiral athletic centrating on building up a taste of the top spot in their pointed out member schools of all conduct planned radio and television ca- history. The last West Coast "never has been better" during reer. He still is going ahead team to attain e was his 10 with this and, as a commentayears of administration. crowned national California, tor for CBS, worked the pro Iowa and Centenary College champion March 8, 1960. Bowl But of Playoff game Sunday. La., were hand"Of course it is a wonderful ed Shreveport, in 1962 he couldn't withstand the harshest penalties by the the urge to get back into ac- honor," acknowledged Wooden, NCAA Executive Council when who has never had a losing tion and rejoined the Giants. were placed dn one-yeseason in 15 years at UCLA, they Had Better Season probation for recruiting infrac"It took me a long time to "but it also means there will tions. more pressure on us. get back into condition," he re- be much Even their probation carried calls. "I feel I had a much bet- It will be a natural reaction with it a provision that the ter season this past year but for all our opponents to try to schools' policies De reviewed by knock off the No. 1 squad." playing with fellows like Y.A. the committee on infractions Tittle and Del Shofner made it Wooden couldn't be blamed with a chance the first-plac- team." Bowling League Formed at Nephi NEPHI The East Juab Women's Bowling Association was formed at a meeting held at Ray's Bowling and Ringo Lanes Friday night. Mrs. Allen Ostler was elected president with the following ladies to assist her; Mrs. Clark Austin, vice president; Mrs. Ted Jones, secretary and Mrs. Gary Greenhalgh as assistant secre- first-plac- ar easier. They have to put two defensive men on Shofner while they usually only have one on me. A good receiver should beat one defender because you know where you're going and he doesn't." Gifford looks forward to at least one more season of play although, he says, "I really don't know if they want me to come back." What he means is that he doesn't know if he will be sent a new contract but other sources indicate that the Giants still are counting on him for at least another season. However, when he is finished, Gifford will have no worries. The collar ad guy is in big demand for commercials, endorsements and such and in addition to aiming for his own television sports shows does two radio sports shows. Mikita Captures Lead in NHL Scoring Chase At the halfway mark of the NHL season, Mikita and Jean Beliveau of the Montreal Cana-dieeach had 48 points, but because Mikita, with 21 goals, had scored five more than Be liveau, he got top money. Be liveau won $250 as runner-uBy week's end, Mikita moved into the scoring lead with 52 points, one more than Beliveau Two more Hawks held third and fourth slots in the league's scoring race. Bobby Hull had 47 points through Sunday's games and Ken Wharram had 40. Andy Bathgate of New York was fifth with 38. Chicago's Glenn Hall was the leading netminder with an av erage of 2.24 goals allowed per game and teammate Reg Fleming was the penalty leader with ns minutes. (11-0- ), 1) -- once-beate- YORK (UPI) might year. The meeting was well attended and one league was formed with Mrs. Morris Lunt as presprobation ident, Mrs.v Deon Rosequist, be lifted before a full vice president; and Mrs. La- - Alabama and Houston re ceived only reprimands for their recruiting practices while Washington State got oft even lighter with a mere warning. Prior to meting out those penalties, the NCAA 'broke precedent by granting a "reprieve" to Indiana and lifting its four-yesuspension Vz months ear ly so the school's top athletes could participate immediately in Olympic events. ar ; 1. 2. a 4. 5. 6. 7. UCLA (25) 335 (11-- 0) Kentucky (6) Lnvola mi. (2) (10-1- ) Michigan (10-1- ) Davidson (2) (10-Oregon State (11-2- ) (10-1- ) 0) Vanderbilt (10-1- ) 259 251 236 169 131 104 101 77 Cincinnati (8-9. Duke (8-59 10. 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(UPI) A.J Foyt of Houston, Tex., has been signed to drive the 1964 Ford, The United Press International mabasketball ratings jor college votes and won-lowith first-plac-e records through Saturday, Jan. 4 in parentheses: Points Team vaun Mansky as secretary. Monday night was chosen as bowling night for the league. iVOlNYSOM ALL.. st getter. 108 first-plac- NEW MiMONTREAL (UPI)-S- tan kita of the Chicago Black Hawks took over sole possession of first place in the National Hockey League's individual scoring race last week after pocketing $500 as the top goal p. for being a bit leery about the Bruins' lofty position. Kentucky, No. 2 this week, could hold the top spot only one week before Georgia Tech upset them, and two weeks ago, Loyola of Chicago, now ranked third, was tripped by Georgetown (D. C), e and lost its perch. (10-1- ) ranked was Kentucky 76 six coaches, first by rating one UCLA behind points of only three unbeaten major college teams, while Loyola and little Davidson, (10-ranked fifth and the only other unbeaten quintet in the rankings, received two first place ballots each. Michigan remained in fourth, Oregon State jumped two places eighth and ninth, respectively n and Villanoa, win ner of the Holiday Festival in New York, retained 10th. tary. " |